If coal is an important fuel of our Industrial development, Koyelaanchal
(coal belt of India) brings to light the explosive story of the people who have kept our precious fuel station at ransom for centuries. Calling these people coal mafia would be an understatement.

Koyelaanchal unveils itself through SaryuBhan Singh (VinodKhanna), an ex-owner turned Mafioso of the region, who through his sheer brutality & blatant defiance of law of the land, forces the people & the authorities to acknowledge him as their ‘maalik’. Any protest, any voice of dissent against him is dealt with spine chilling violence of epic proportions. We see labour leaders trying to organize mass movements against him, getting massacred &Naxalites trying to answer his violence with violence getting blown away to oblivion.

This head honcho, SaryuBhan Singh, of this gangland in total cahoots with the local administration & crony politicos eventually turns this treasure of our land into a social, economical & environmental disaster.

Things get a bit difficult to handle for SaryuBhan Singh when an upright District Collector Nisheeth Kumar(Suniel Shetty) takes charge of the region and starts asking him questions that no one dared ask him before. Caught amidst labor revolts &naxal uprisings, the last thing SaryuBhan Singh wanted was to make enemies with the top government officer of his region. He sends his most lethal human weapon, Karua (Vipinno) to scare Nisheeth Kumar off to silence.

But the mission don’t-kill-just-scare-him goes horribly wrong when Karuaends up fatally injuring Nisheeth’s wife. What happens hereafter tells a thrilling & heart-rending story of how the real power doesn’t always flow through the barrels of guns but through the tender touches of a child, love of a mother & heartfelt prayers of the hapless millions.